There’s a double standard when it comes to parenting teens during the dating years. Boys are just hormonal and girls are sweet angels who need to protect their feelings. This mentality is flat out wrong. In his book, “Get Out of My Life, But First Could You Drive Me and Cheryl to the Mall?”: A read more »

Normal is a strange word. It’s meant to represent the qualities of a majority, but I’m sick of how many people it leaves out. I want to cast a wider net. Margie Clayman is a little person. As in, she’s shorter than most people. Why do we have to refer to her as a little read more »

For years I’ve had ideas that my brain is begging me to do. I keep procrastinating by being tired, playing casual games, watching tv, and consuming other people’s creative work. I’ve known that resistance is a factor, but it’s becoming more clear that the resistance may take longer portions of the creative process than I read more »

Yesterday, I wrote about how social networking can make us unhappy, adding to the conversation started over at Gizmodo. Today, I’m writing about what I’m doing to make my online social experience a more pleasant one. Before I start, I want to make clear that I believe that people have to do what works for read more »

Over at Gizmodo, Daniel Gulati discussed the ways Facebook makes people miserable. He hit it right on the head when pointing out how comparing ourselves to others in our social networks is a conduit for unhappiness. He also offered up two other reasons, time fragmentation and decline in close personal relationships (though, I personally do read more »

A 10 year old girl recently committed suicide, which is almost unfathomable. Students are coming forward to say the girl was bullied. Inevitably, there will be talk of anti-bullying efforts, which makes everyone feel a tiny bit better about the situation. The problem is that these current message of these campaigns doesn’t work. The primary read more »

A few weeks ago, I began experimenting with the Pomodoro Technique. Ok, ok, at first, I used a modified version of it as explained on Copyblogger that copywriter Eugene Schwartz used. But the point of both techniques is to produce 25-35 minutes of focused work followed by a 5-10 minute break. I resisted this for read more »

When you see the peace symbol or hear people talk about peace or see the word peace in the name of an organization, it’s almost always political. But that’s not what peace truly is. In fact, politics is so divisive, that dragging the word peace into it – even in the context of the anti-war read more »

Those who profit from the narrow view of beauty and image in this country: – Doctors who perform bariatric surgery. (More people die from that surgery than from obesity.) – Weight loss pill pushers – Weight loss food pushers (Weight Watchers, Jenny Craig, etc) – Gyms – Natural food companies and grocery stores – The read more »

I think, maybe far too often, people who wish to be original try to do so by just being different than everyone else out there. A nearly impossible feat. Originality is fairly simple: you just have to be yourself. Being yourself is the problem. Here’s why. [Oh and sometimes yourself is like otherselves. For example, read more »